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Our text for the resolution of 6721 (attaching policy to implicit operations) implies that an endpoint will always support Mex.GetMetadata. Here is the text from WS-Transfer: "An endpoint MAY indicate that it supports WS-Transfer, or its features, by including the WS-Transfer Policy assertion within its WSDL. By doing so the endpoint is indicating that the corresponding WS-Transfer operations are supported by that endpoint even though they do not explicitly appear in its WSDL (i.e. retrievable by using a WS-MetadataExchange GetMetadata with a Dialect IRI of http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/). " The last sentence in brackets: "(i.e. retrievable by using a WS-MetadataExchange GetMetadata with a Dialect IRI of http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/)." implies that the GetMetadata must be supported by the endpoint. Proposal Change the text slightly to: "(i.e. the WSDL that MAY be retrievable by using a WS-MetadataExchange GetMetadata with a Dialect IRI of http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/)."
2009-10-13 resolved as proposed
Please make my changes